Falling
“Yet another story” of a black woman “getting shafted by white women” knocks the poet off her feet, literally, and she rises to the continuing struggle.
poetry
To a Stranger
Whitman Archive
In this season of gay pride and the varieties of love, Walt Whitman speaks to us on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
poetry
Path to Migration
A Wolf Stands Alone in Water
“When a thought from the past fires the soul,” writes the poet Joseph Zaccardi of a wartime memory, “time is no more.” And yet it clings to the present.
Walt Whitman’s Guide to a Thriving Democracy
The Atlantic
America had a mind shaped by its Founders, but the country needed the poet to discover its spirit.
poetry
Skin Hymn
Undersong
Tanuja Wakefield, daughter of Indian immigrants, depicts the anguish and anger of being taunted for the color of her skin.
poetry
Sanctuary
North American Review
Peter Neil Carroll’s “Sanctuary” honors the work of Proactiva Open Arms, a non-governmental volunteer group of lifeguards who rescue refugees at sea.
poetry
Abe & Jack, Milt, Moe, Dave…
Chiron Review
Peter Neil Carroll's poetry pays homage to the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who left a legacy of fighting fascism.
books
Brecht’s Poetry: Angry or Evil?
London Review of Books
An extended ode to the revolutionary German playwright-genius Bertolt Brecht, whose exhaustive new collected poems exalt combating injustice while keeping faith in his fidelity to dissent.
poetry
School photo: The Jewish school, Warsaw 1929
Intimate Riches in a Little Room
For the London-born poet Jane Spiro, her father’s school photo taken in 1929 represents the “before” but cannot foresee the changes that await a Polish-born Jewish boy.
poetry
The Business of Guns
Chiron Review
Massachusetts poet Anne Champion raises a protest against the sale of guns and weapons of mass destruction.
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